Russia plans to send 100,000 tons of wheat in humanitarian aid to Syria this year, government officials said Tuesday. A source at the agriculture ministry has said Russia has been considering sending around 100,000 tons of wheat to Syria from government stocks. "I can't say how much, but...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas opened the first congress of his Fatah party for seven years on Tuesday, with 1,300 mostly elderly delegates gathered to elect new leaders and discuss longer-term policy, including how to confront Israel. The meeting comes at a challenging time for Abbas,...

The leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda movement, Rached Ghannouchi, met late Monday with a high-level Turkish delegation led by Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli. The delegation -- which also included Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu -- is visiting Tunis to participate in an...

French investigators have tried and failed - again -to persuade Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam to talk to anti-terrorism investigators. Paris prosecutor's office spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said Abdeslam was brought before an anti-terrorism judge Tuesday for a new interrogation...